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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to the ceiling when Adam wakes?
(a) It is falling down.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It is leaking.
(d) It is changing colors.

2. What is Pa trying to keep safe?
(a) The corn fields.
(b) The tool shed.
(c) The chicken coop.
(d) The barn.

3. What is in the pair of pants that Adam hangs in the closet?
(a) Blinn's card.
(b) A wad of dollar bills.
(c) A few coins.
(d) A pipe and tobacco.

4. What does Rowena realize when she thinks back to the day in Blinn's tent?
(a) That there were other cards handed out.
(b) That Blinn's eyes glowed.
(c) That Blinn seemed semi-transparent.
(d) That there was an instruction manual about the cards.

5. What is Henry's condition when Rowena checks on him after getting home?
(a) He is almost a tree.
(b) The bark and leaves are dropping off.
(c) He is completely a tree.
(d) He seems dead.

6. What stories had Henry fabricated?
(a) The things the machinery he sells can do.
(b) About a girlfriend back home.
(c) His travel stories.
(d) About saving several people from death.

7. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) Water is coming in the basement.
(b) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.
(c) The water seems to be slowing.
(d) The water is almost to the top of the basement.

8. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?
(a) His older brother who is on leave from the Navy.
(b) No one.
(c) Uncle Poot.
(d) His older sister who is at college.

9. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(b) They are dry and cracked.
(c) They are all watered.
(d) They burn.

10. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?
(a) Ask his pa to build a new well.
(b) Refuse to work anymore.
(c) Use Blinn's card.
(d) Leave home.

11. What does Adam decide to try?
(a) Putting a little cow manure in each hole.
(b) Making the holes further apart so he does not need to dig so many.
(c) Using Uncle Poot's dowsing stick.
(d) Digging a really deep hole to search for water.

12. About what is Adam unhappy?
(a) The chickens are not producing many eggs.
(b) A fox got three hens.
(c) The sow only had two babies.
(d) The well has gone dry.

13. How does Adam react to what someone says about the cause of the water problem?
(a) He feels scared.
(b) He feels angry.
(c) He feels frustrated.
(d) He feels guilty.

14. What does Adam think is unfair?
(a) That his older brother gets to be in the navy and he has to be home working on the farm.
(b) The way the other kids laugh at him for helping out his parents.
(c) The way he gets penalized in school when he's later because of working on the farm.
(d) The situation in his family.

15. What happens when Rowena's parents investigate?
(a) They find one of Henry Piper's shoes in the woods.
(b) They find Henry Piper's briefcase in the woods.
(c) They find Henry Piper's watch in the woods.
(d) They find one of Henry Piper's order forms in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?

2. What does Rowena say to Sam about Henry?

3. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?

4. What does Sam feed Henry?

5. What does Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?

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